 | John Alexander Jameson - History - 1867 - 582 pages
...discovered to exist;" and that the Convention meet on the 2d Monday in May, 1787, at Philadelphia, " to take into consideration the situation of the United...provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Con1 Ell. Deb., Vol. I. pp. 93-100. 2 New Jersey had instructed her delegates to the Annapolis Convention... | |
 | Frank Gilbert - Railroad law - 1873 - 354 pages
...may be found to require." The report concluded with the recommendation that air the states appoint commissioners, " to meet at Philadelphia on the second...consideration the situation of the United States." ยง 490. 'No little discussion was had in the convention over the phrasing of the commercial clause... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1873 - 524 pages
...Convention at Annapolis recommended a national convention at Philadelphia in the ensuing month of May, " to take into consideration the situation of the United...to devise such further provisions as shall appear necessary to render the Constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1873 - 562 pages
...virtue and wisdom of all the members of the Confederacy," recommended the meeting of a Convention " to devise such further provisions as shall appear...to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." In accord with this recommendation, the... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 566 pages
...virtue and wisdom of all the members of the Confederacy," recommended the meeting of a Convention " to devise such further provisions as shall appear...to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." In accord with this recommendation, the... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - United States - 1875 - 522 pages
...of all the States, to meet at Philadelphia, in May, 1787, to take into consideration the sitnation of the United States ; to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them netessary, to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adeqnate to the exigencies of the Union."... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 532 pages
...other states, in the appointment of commissioners, to meet at Philadelphia on the second Monday in Mny next, to take into consideration the situation of...to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union ; and to report such an act for that purpose... | |
 | William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 416 pages
...general convention of all the states to meet at Philadelphia, on the second Monday of May, 1787, ' to take into consideration the situation of the United...to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union ; and to report such an act for that purpose,... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - Founding Fathers of the United States - 1876 - 472 pages
...indefiniteness of their scope and significance. Accordingly the convention unanimously urged the " appointment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the second...the situation of the United States, to devise such farther provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - Founding Fathers of the United States - 1876 - 456 pages
...indefiniteness of their scope and significance. Accordingly the convention unanimously urged the " appointment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the second...the situation of the United States, to devise such farther provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government... | |
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May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union... 
